1. Acting American; Jews, theatricality, and modernity
2. Cantors' sons, jazz singers, and Indian chiefs; The invention of ethnicity on the musical comedy stage
3. Babes in arms; The politics of theatricality during the great depression
4. "We know we belong to the land"; The theatricality of assimilation in Oklahoma!
5. The apprenticeship of Annie Oakley; or, 'doin' what comes natur'lly"
6. "You've got to be carefully taught"; The politics of race in south pacific
Coda; "I whistle a happy tune".